Description: The incredibly fraught choice that many women must make between being a career woman and being a good mother gets full play in this humorous mom-lit mystery by the author of LITTLE EARTHQUAKES. The neglect of her husband, the move from N...
Synopsis The incredibly fraught choice that many women must make between being a career woman and being a good mother gets full play in this humorous mom-lit mystery by the author of LITTLE EARTHQUAKES. The neglect of her husband, the move from New York City to suburbia, and the relinquishing of her journalism job to raise her three small children has left Kate Klein feeling frustrated and grubby. But when she arrives for her planned lunch date with perfectly groomed supermom Kitty Cavanagh and discovers Kitty's corpse instead, Kate finds a fresh sense of purpose in a new occupation: amateur sleuth.
Details
Publication Date:
2005-09-20
Size
Length:
376 pages
Height:
9.5 in
Width:
6.5 in
Thickness:
1.0 in
Weight:
18.4 oz
Publisher's Note Having relocated to an alienating Connecticut suburb after a mugging in her native New York City, wife and mother Kate Klein struggles to fit in with her discriminating new neighbors and undertakes a murder investigation during her children's school hours when a local mom is killed. By the author of Little Earthquakes.
Industry Reviews "[D]elightfully funny." Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) - Laurie Muchnick (09/18/2005)